• William Blake's poetry with Philip Pullman
    Feb 1 2024

    William Blake’s poetry and prose. We visit Sir Philip at home to discuss the poet who has ‘inspired and intoxicated’ him for the last sixty years. In Philip’s book-lined sitting room we discuss Blake’s most loved works: his Songs of Innocence and of Experience, The Marriage of Heaven and Hell and Auguries of Innocence.

     

    Pullman has written frequently about Blake and previously served as President of the William Blake Society.

     

    Blake’s Selected Poems (Penguin Classics edition)

    https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/33866/selected-poems-blake-by-william-blake-ed-professor-g-e-bentley-series-editor--christopher-ricks/9780140424461

    https://apple.co/48HX8yM

     

    Naxos Audiobooks edition of Blake’s poetry, read by Robert Glenister, Michael Maloney and Stephen Critchlow

    https://naxosaudiobooks.com/blake-william-selections/

    https://apple.co/3tRg676

     

    Sir Philip Pullman

    https://www.philip-pullman.com/

     

    Daemon Voices by Philip Pullman

    https://www.davidficklingbooks.com/shop/ItemDetails.php?pubID=190

    https://apple.co/4aVkHpC

     

    Audiobook edition of Daemon Voices

    https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/309349/daemon-voices-by-pullman-philip/9780241372906

    https://apple.co/47NE6Gl

     

    The Blake Society

    https://blakesociety.org/

     

    Presenter – Henry Eliot: https://www.henryeliot.co.uk/

    Producer – Andrea Rangecroft: https://www.andrearangecroft.co.uk/


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  • Giovanni’s Room with Caryl Phillips
    Jan 25 2024

    James Baldwin in Paris. On the rain-soaked boulevards, the novelist Caryl Phillips discusses Baldwin's exquisite same-sex love story, drinking in the Cafe de Flore and exploring Saint Germain des Prés.

     

    Phillips, who knew James Baldwin, wrote the introduction to the Penguin Modern Classics edition of Giovanni’s Room and an unfilmed screenplay of the novel for Merchant Ivory productions.


    2024 marks 100 years since Baldwin was born

     

    Giovanni’s Room by James Baldwin (Penguin Modern Classics edition)

    https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/57368/giovannis-room-by-james-baldwin-introduction-by-caryl-phillips/9780141186351

    https://apple.co/3Hnscrz


    Penguin Audio edition of Giovanni’s Room – available June 6th 2024

    https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/56260/giovannis-room-by-baldwin-james/9781802067224


    Calliope Author Readings – James Baldwin

    http://calliopeauthorreadings.com/james-baldwin/

    https://apple.co/4aTk0go

     

    Caryl Phillips

    https://www.carylphillips.com/

     

    The European Tribe by Caryl Phillips

    https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/130570/the-european-tribe-by-caryl-phillips/

     

    Presenter – Henry Eliot: https://www.henryeliot.co.uk/

    Producer – Andrea Rangecroft: https://www.andrearangecroft.co.uk/


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  • John Donne's poetry with Katherine Rundell
    Jan 18 2024

    John Donne’s poetry and prose in London. The scholar and children’s author Katherine Rundell traces the life and paradoxical career of John Donne from the street where he was born, through the palaces and colleges where he worked to the cathedral where he preached and now lies buried.

     

    In 2022 Rundell won the Baillie-Gifford Prize for her biography of Donne, Super-Infinite.


    Donne's prose masterpiece Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions was published 400 years ago in January 1624.

     

    Donne’s Selected Poems (Penguin Classics edition)

    https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/33860/selected-poems-donne-by-john-donne-ed-professor-ilona-bell-series-editor--christopher-ricks/9780140424409

    https://apple.co/48S5406

     

    Donne’s Selected Prose (Penguin Classics edition)

    https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/34100/selected-prose-by-donne-john/9780141396712

    https://apple.co/47NE1m1

     

    Naxos audiobook edition of Donne’s poetry, read by Geoffrey Whitehead and Will Keen

    https://naxosaudiobooks.com/john-donne-selections/

    https://apple.co/3vHDpk8

     

    Katherine Rundell

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katherine_Rundell

    https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/author/katherine-rundell/

     

    Super-Infinite by Katherine Rundell (Faber)

    https://www.faber.co.uk/product/9780571345922-super-infinite/

    https://apple.co/47DGDCx

     

    Audiobook edition of Super-Infinite

    https://www.faber.co.uk/product/9780571378258-super-infinite/

    https://apple.co/3TSyR4I

     

    Lincoln’s Inn

    https://www.lincolnsinn.org.uk/

     

    St Dunstan in the West

    https://www.stdunstaninthewest.org/

     

    St Paul’s Cathedral

    https://www.stpauls.co.uk/

     

    Presenter – Henry Eliot: https://www.henryeliot.co.uk/

    Producer – Andrea Rangecroft: https://www.andrearangecroft.co.uk/


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  • We Have Always Lived in the Castle with Ruth Franklin
    Jan 11 2024

    Shirley Jackson in North Bennington, Vermont. Award-winning biographer Ruth Franklin visits the small village of North Bennington, where Jackson lived for twenty years. We stand in the square where Jackson imagined 'The Lottery' and conjure the ghost of Merricat Blackwood as she collects her sinister groceries in Jackson’s last and greatest novel, We Have Always Lived in the Castle.

     

    We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson (Penguin Modern Classics edition)

    https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/133431/we-have-always-lived-in-the-castle-by-jackson-shirley/9780141191454

    Blackstone Publishing audiobook edition of We Have Always Lived in the Castle, read by Bernadette Dunne

    https://www.blackstonelibrary.com/we-have-always-lived-in-the-castle?sp=15364

     

    The Lottery and Other Stories by Shirley Jackson (Penguin Modern Classics edition)

    https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/133428/the-lottery-and-other-stories-by-jackson-shirley/9780141191430

    Penguin Audio edition of The Lottery and Other Stories, read by Francine Brody

    https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/133428/the-lottery-and-other-stories-by-jackson-shirley/9780141994871

     

    Life Among the Savages by Shirley Jackson (Penguin Modern Classics edition)

    https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/312885/life-among-the-savages-by-jackson-shirley/9780241387801

    Penguin Audio edition of Life Among the Savages, read by Kate Handford

    https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/312885/life-among-the-savages-by-jackson-shirley/9780141994901

     

     

    Ruth Franklin

    https://ruthfranklin.substack.com/

     

    Shirley Jackson: A Rather Haunted Life by Ruth Franklin

    https://wwnorton.com/books/Shirley-Jackson-A-Rather-Haunted-Life/

     

    The Moonscones Micro-Bakery

    http://www.moonscones.com/


    Powers Market

    https://powersmarket.com/

     

    The John G McCullough Free Library

    https://mcculloughlibrary.org/


     

    Presenter – Henry Eliot: https://www.henryeliot.co.uk/

    Producer – Andrea Rangecroft: https://www.andrearangecroft.co.uk/


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  • Angela Carter's Fairy Tales with Marina Warner
    Jan 4 2024

    Angela Carter’s Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault. In Dame Marina Warner's magical home in North London, the historian and mythographer discusses Perrault's Tales of Mother Goose and their English translation by Angela Carter, as well as Carter’s own Bloody Chamber and Other Stories. Our wide-ranging conversation covers Cinderella, Sleeping Beauty, Bluebeard and Little Red Riding Hood, as well as many other fairy tales.

     

    The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault by Angela Carter (Penguin Modern Classics edition)

    https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/57621/the-fairy-tales-of-charles-perrault-by-angela-carter-intro--jack-zipes/9780141189956

     

    Dame Marina Warner

    https://www.marinawarner.com/

     

    Once Upon a Time by Marina Warner

    https://global.oup.com/ukhe/product/once-upon-a-time-9780198779858

    https://apple.co/3TGDZJb

     

    From the Beast to the Blonde by Marina Warner

    https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/358658/from-the-beast-to-the-blonde-by-marina-warner/9781409028635

    https://apple.co/48xHQfy

     

    The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories by Angela Carter

    https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/359636/the-bloody-chamber-and-other-stories-by-angela-carter/9780099588115

    https://apple.co/3H1huqG

     

    Audible edition of The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories, read by Richard Armitage and Emilia Fox

    https://www.audible.co.uk/pd/The-Bloody-Chamber-Audiobook/B07B5C8MMK

    https://apple.co/3tMYcSO

     

    Presenter – Henry Eliot: https://www.henryeliot.co.uk/

    Producer – Andrea Rangecroft: https://www.andrearangecroft.co.uk/


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  • A Christmas Carol with Simon Callow – Christmas Special 2023
    Dec 21 2023

    Charles Dickens in London. For this festive Christmas Special, the actor and author Simon Callow joins Henry to summon the ghost of Ebeneezer Scrooge and follow him around the City of London, starting at Cornhill, taking in Leadenhall Market and meeting all three Spirits of Christmas. A Christmas Carol, Dickens’s best loved novel, was published on 19 December 1843, 180 years ago this year.

     

    Penguin Classics edition of A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens

    https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/34585/a-christmas-carol-and-other-christmas-writings-by-charles-dickens-intro-michael-slater/9780140439052

    https://apple.co/3Te9UQQ

     

    Penguin Audio edition of A Christmas Carol, read by Theo Ogundipe

    https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/34585/a-christmas-carol-and-other-christmas-writings-by-dickens-charles/9780241455326

    https://apple.co/46OVnhC

     

    Simon Callow

    https://simoncallow.com/

     

    Charles Dickens and the Great Theatre of the World by Simon Callow

    https://harpercollins.co.uk/products/charles-dickens-and-the-great-theatre-of-the-world-simon-callow

     

    Simon’s solo version of A Christmas Carol (BBC)

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0001kwg

     

    The Counting House

    https://www.the-counting-house.com/

     

    The Royal Exchange

    https://www.theroyalexchange.co.uk/

     

    The George and Vulture

    https://george-and-vulture.co.uk/

     

    Presenter – Henry Eliot: https://www.henryeliot.co.uk/

    Producer – Andrea Rangecroft: https://www.andrearangecroft.co.uk/


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  • A Clockwork Orange with Jeff Noon and Andrew Biswell
    Dec 14 2023

    Anthony Burgess in East Sussex. On the 30th anniversary of Burgess’s death, the science fiction author Jeff Noon and the biographer Andrew Biswell travel East Sussex with Henry, visiting the rented flat where Burgess began writing A Clockwork Orange, O my brothers, and the quiet village where he finished it, taking in a pub, a prison, ultra violence, nadsat, brainwashing and Beethoven.


    Penguin Classics ‘Restored Edition’ of A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess, edited by Andrew Biswell

    https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/182137/a-clockwork-orange-by-burgess-anthony/9780141197531

    https://apple.co/41d2sHC

     

    Penguin Audio edition of A Clockwork Orange, read by Tom Hollander

    https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/384903/a-clockwork-orange-by-anthony-burgess/9781407058542

    https://apple.co/3Te9HNy

     

    Jeff Noon

    http://jeffnoon.weebly.com/

     

    Vurt by Jeff Noon (30th anniversary edition)

    https://angryrobotbooks.com/books/vurt/

     

    Andrew Biswell

    https://www.mmu.ac.uk/staff/profile/professor-andrew-biswell

     

    The International Anthony Burgess Foundation

    https://www.anthonyburgess.org/

     

    The Real Life of Anthony Burgess by Andrew Biswell

    https://www.panmacmillan.com/authors/andrew-biswell/the-real-life-of-anthony-burgess/9780330481717

     

    Christopher Hawtree

    http://www.christopherhawtree.com/

     

    The Neptune Inn

    https://theneptunelivemusicbar.co.uk/

     

    Presenter – Henry Eliot: https://www.henryeliot.co.uk/

    Producer – Andrea Rangecroft: https://www.andrearangecroft.co.uk/


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  • Farewell, My Lovely with Dick Lochte
    Dec 7 2023

    Raymond Chandler in Santa Monica. As well as The Big Sleep and The Long Goodbye, we discuss Farewell, My Lovely, Chandler’s favourite of his own novels, as we walk the noir streets of ‘Bay City’ – or Santa Monica in Southern California – retracing Philip Marlowe's footsteps from City Hall to Santa Monica Pier, and chatting about Dick's hard-boiled and hilarious Chandler tribute, Sleeping Dog.

     

    Penguin Classics omnibus edition of The Big Sleep, Farewell, My Lovely and The Long Goodbye by Raymond Chandler

    https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/57024/the-big-sleep-and-other-novels-by-raymond-chandler/9780141182612

    https://apple.co/3uH9E2J

     

    Penguin Audio edition of Farewell, My Lovely, read by Scott Brick

    https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/11358/farewell-my-lovely-by-chandler-raymond/9780241989418

    https://apple.co/3NatWrM

     

    Dick Lochte

    https://www.fantasticfiction.com/l/dick-lochte/

     

    Penguin Crime Classics edition of Sleeping Dog by Dick Lochte

    https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/458455/sleeping-dog-by-lochte-dick/9780241656921

    https://apple.co/3sV2583

     

    Penguin Audio edition of Sleeping Dog, read by Robert G. Slade and Daniela Vanasco

    https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/458455/sleeping-dog-by-lochte-dick/9780241671726

    https://apple.co/47B39g9

     

    Santa Monica City Hall

    https://www.santamonica.gov/places/city-facilities/santa-monica-city-hall

     

    The Georgian

    https://www.thegeorgian.com/

     

    Santa Monica Pier

    https://www.santamonicapier.org/

     

    Raymond Chandler Mystery Map of Los Angeles

    https://apps.lib.umich.edu/online-exhibits/exhibits/show/litmaps/item/4934?exhibit=130&page=1028

     

    Presenter – Henry Eliot: https://www.henryeliot.co.uk/

    Producer – Andrea Rangecroft: https://www.andrearangecroft.co.uk/

    Producer – Megan Tan: https://www.megantan.com/


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    1 hr and 4 mins